The work on the biographical and bibliographical database continued and was intensified both in classic and electronics forms. New emphasis was given to the latter. So far there are more than20.000 entries of biographical and bibliographical data of in important personalities and families. The biographical and bibliographical studies included the research of the curriculum vitae of famous Slovenian personalities, among them Friderik Baraga, Anton Martin Slomšek, Franc Pirc, Karel Mauser, Janez Karel Herberstein, Pavel Turner, Lavoslav Gregorec, Lambert Ehrlich, Anton Rudolf Legat, France Ostanek, Franc Mihael Paglovec, Jože Pogačnik, Janko Kos, Kajetan Kovič and others, the research of Slovenian emigration personalities especially in Argentina, Slovenian pseudonyms, Slovenian personalities from Slovensko primorje (Littoral) in years 1914-1918, Slovenian emigrants from Italy after World War I, the members of The Society of St. Hermagoras, The Society of Saint Cyril and Methodius and Slovenska Matica (Slovenian Literary Society), in Slovenia and abroad. Strong emphasis was given to the biographical and bibliographical methodological research, especially to the preparation and further development of the information infrastructure for humanistic studies connected with the COBISS system. The Institute started its own series of scientific publications Življenja in dela, Biografske in bibliografske študije (Lives ans Works, Biographical and Bibliographical studies) in 2000 with the publication Poskusna gesla za novi Slovenski biografski leksikon (The sample textes for the new Slovenian Biographical Lexicon). The Institute continued the preparations for the registers of the members of the branch organizations of the Society of Saint Cyril and Methodius, which will be published in 2004, of personalities to be included in the new Slovenian Biographical Lexicon, and for the Lexicon of Slovenian pseudonyms which will be gradually published in Institute's own publication mentioned above.